Subject: Re: Good tar.gz app
From: Rich Lafferty (rich@alcor.concordia.ca)
Date: Tue Feb 22 2000 - 07:40:09 MST
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 11:19:55PM -0500, Jeff Tillwick (jeffat00@bellsouth.net) wrote:
> Oh, where do i begin! Lets see, first off, Archiver does indeed decompress
> tar.gz files, yet i have yet to see its ability to compile and correctly
> install the program
>
> Secondly, using the shell is so confusing and lame
MacOS is right over there. Enjoy. You won't like Linux at all.
On the other hand, if you can come up with some AI that will read a
README and INSTALL file and figure out how to install a particular
program, then putting a GUI around that wouldn't be too hard at all.
> installed kicq and klicq and xawtv in the shell and as far as i can tell, i
> did it correctly, yet the programs wont load up and the commands do
> absolutely nothing both and the command line and in the terminal.
That's a strange value of "correctly". Why don't you tell us what you
did, what you expected, and what happens when you try them? (Nothing
does "absolutely nothing".)
-Rich
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